Abbots Bromley Horn Dance
Six dancers carry ancient reindeer antlers, some carbon dated to the eleventh century, twelve miles around a Staffordshire village on Wakes Monday, joined by a hobby horse, a Fool and Maid Marian.
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"Longnor's cobbled market square hosts one of the last well dressings of the season in the Staffordshire Moorlands, a rare continuation of the Derbyshire tradition just over the county border."
Longnor Well Dressing
"The Staffordshire village of Pattingham mounts scarecrows through its streets and gardens for three late September days, running alongside fairground rides and food stalls at the village club in a festival that has quietly become one of the best attended scarecrow events in the Midlands."
Pattingham Scarecrow Festival
"The Staffordshire County Showground organises district ploughing and hedgelaying matches each autumn, and the Eccleshall round draws competitors from across the county to farmland around one of Staffordshire's quieter market towns for a full day of working countryside skills."
Eccleshall District Ploughing and Hedgelaying Match
"One of Staffordshire's oldest continuous well-dressing traditions, begun in 1843 as an act of thanksgiving after Endon's spring uniquely survived a devastating regional drought, the festival pairs intricately flower-petalled well panels with a May Queen crowning, maypole dancing, and the competitive sheaf-tossing contest."
Endon Well Dressing
"A whole weekend of English and American folk dancing from Playford to the present, with national callers and bands across three halls, marking its 50th year."
Lichfield Folk Festival
"Founded in 1980 to unite parishes bordering the River Manifold, this strictly local-entry show is beloved for its Slow Tractor Race and genuine community spirit set against the spectacular scenery of the Staffordshire moorland valley."
Manifold Valley Show
"One of the last Derbyshire wells dressed entirely in the old way with no nails or glue, just clay boards pressed petal by petal, blessed with a service and kept up for five days."
Barlow Well Dressing
"The plague village dresses its wells in late August, the same clay and petal craft as its neighbours, in a place that carries more history per cottage than almost anywhere in England."
Eyam Well Dressing
"One of Derbyshire's most tranquil well dressings appears in this small hamlet near Miller's Dale each August, where the petal-and-clay panel stands in one of the quietest and most beautiful corners of the White Peak."
Wormhill Well Dressing
"A Cotswold-edge fete with a home produce competition, welly wanging and a prize-winning cider bar runs alongside three days of fabulous flower displays adorning the village church."
Childswickham Village Fete and Flower Festival
"Built around a duck pond, a medieval cross and a bull ring, Foolow is the quintessential Peak District village and its well dressings in late August draw visitors who discover what the White Peak looks like when nobody planned a car park for it."
Foolow Well Dressing
"The congregation joins hands around the church in an embracing ceremony in this Peak lead-mining town."
Wirksworth Clypping